Increasing the predictive power of galaxy formation simulations

New Papers from FIRE

The past several months have been highly productive for the FIRE project, with a large number of new papers submitted on a variety of science topics.

Among others, the first paper from MassiveFIRE by Feldmann et al. investigates the formation of massive quiescent galaxies at z~2. MassiveFIRE is a major new component of the FIRE project focusing on massive halos relevant for galaxy quenching, sub-millimeter galaxies, and quasars. Simulations from MassiveFIRE have already been incorporated in the following several recent articles:

In parallel to MassiveFIRE, we are also currently developing FIREBox, a complementary project that will simulate a full cosmological volume at the resolution of the FIRE zoom-in simulations. FIREBox will provide the galaxy statistics necessary to fully interpret high-redshift galaxy surveys and will be ideally suited for studies of the intergalactic medium.